In Japanese, every content word has its own H/L pitch pattern when it is uttered isolatedly, called accent type. In a TTS system , this lexical information is usually stored in a dictionary and it is referred to for prosody generation. When converting a written sentence to speech, however, this lexical H/L pattern is often changed according to the context,… (More)

In this paper, we introduce a novel framework for lossless/near-lossless (LS/NLS) color image coding assisted by an inverse demosaicing. Conventional frameworks are typically based on prediction (and quantization for NLS coding) followed by entropy coding, such as the JPEG-LS for bit rate saving. The approach of this work is totally different from the… (More)